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when they say driverless trucks, what they mean is trucks with a "drives itself" mode on motorways. a condition of using the control is that a driver is present at the wheel and paying attention to the road.
we're still a very long way from trucks that could handle say, a busy roundabout in the middle of surburbia. there's a spectacular number of variables and calculations - getting the damn thing round the roundabout, giving up and sending it even though the cars already on the roundabout are going to have to apply the brakes a bit, avoiding the inevitable school mum in the wrong lane...
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